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Pre-season fun - women's team videos

The European women's peloton officially start their season on Saturday, with the Omloop het Nieuwsblad - and while we're waiting, there are all kinds of videos and photo-shoots to welcome us into the season. Let's have a look at the teams for 2014, the bike equivalent of Downton Abbey, and more! Add anything you've seen recently to the comments

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Boels-Dolmans

Here's a video put together by Wielerrevue, with footage from Qatar, the team's photo-shoot and interview with Ellen van Dijk (Dutch, but nice images if you don't understand the language!)

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Hitec Products

Hitec's Elisa Longo Borghini was featured on RAI Sport's RadioCorsa last week - her segment starts at about the 40-minute mark (in Italian, of course)

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Liv-Shimano

I've posted these before, but I really love the mini Liv-Shimano videos on their You Tube with the riders talking about their season hopes and why they love cycling.  Here's fan-favourite Marijn de Vries - and I did enjoy Lucy Garner laughing at Lawson Craddock at the team launch, too...

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Lotto-Belisol

No Lotto-made fun, but here's a video with their new signing Amy Cure talking about this week's Track World Champs, for Cycling Australia

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ORICA-AIS

Swedish tv went to see Emma Johansson training in Flanders in the rain.  In Swedish, as you can imagine, but it looks really nice - I'm pretty sure she's laughing at the weather at one point...

More Cycling Australia videos with ORICA riders at the Track World Championships this week, on the Cycling Australia youtube - Nettie Edmondson and Melissa Hoskins

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Optum p/b Kelly Benefits Strategies

Photo-set from the Optum-Kelly women's team camp, on their facebook

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Specialized-lululemon

Spec-lulu are always very good at this!  Here they are talking about the season for a Lezyne video - and there's a team camp set on their site, and more beautiful team camp photos by Emily Maye on the Specialized Women facebook (including Teute tattoos!)

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United Healthcare

Video looking back at their 2013 men's team and ahead to 2014 for the men and the brand-new women's team.

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More!

This isn't specifically women's cycling, but it has Lizzie Armitstead and Jessie Walker in it.  I think the only way I can describe it is Downton Abbey on wheels...

and because some of you love MTB (sorry broerie!) here are some pre-season videos from the muddier side of the sport...

Hutchinson United Ride

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Anneke Beerten

GoPro fun off-road and off the bike

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UPDATE!

I had to edit this in, when Colavita's Lindsay Bayer sent it to me on twitter :-)

Trainer Time (feat. Pitbull) from Lindsay on Vimeo.

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If you've seen anything else you've particularly enjoyed, post it in the comments, where I'm adding all the tons of blogs and things that are being tweeted about tonight....  here's to getting a ton of racing videos very soon!